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Subject: topic beating
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Date: Tue, 14-May-85 10:40:54 EDT
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Sanjay
> Now that we have heard from the women on the issue of wife beatings etc. etc.
> I was wondering if the reverse exists - maybe not in an identical fashion
> but in a similar way ? Is there a study done or anything to support that
> wives also abuse their husbands.

Oh, good grief, if you stand in line in a supermarket you can see articles in
the National Enquirer purporting to be about such studies.

But big fucking deal.  It's a lot less common than men using physical violence
against women members of the household.

Why when there's a discussion about a particular problem for women do we have
to turn it around to what the similar problem is for men?  Like the discussion
about clitorectomies: sure enough, as was predicted, we soon had dozens of
articles about circumcision.

Look, this is NET.WOMEN.  If violence from women (rather than against) has
interest to women, then let's by all means discuss it.  Otherwise, go talk
about husband-beating in net.misc until there's enough interest for creating
net.men.

Yeah, I haven't had any hate mail in a week,
L S Chabot  ...decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-amber!chabot   chabot%amber.dec@decwrl.arpa